EasyBib

One of the worst websites I have ever used. Terrible experience. It is just so slow and has so many adds, making it not "easy" and actually very hard.

As a school librarian, this was my go-to tool for sharing with an entire school of students. It had gotten progressively worse with the advertising until now it's just completely unusable. Honestly, I would be happy use some of my library budget for a school-wide pay version of Easybib without ads, but for some odd reason the company would rather make $9 from the few schmucks that are willing to pay for premium instead of bigger guaranteed bucks from schools. What a dumb business plan for a company with an educational tool. I wish I could have given zero stars. :(

This site used to be good in the sense of creating a reference page for my papers in MLA. However, now it's advertisement after advertisement just to do something that takes 1 minute at the most on other alternative sites. Oh, ready for the nail in the coffin? You have to pay $10 a month if you wanna create a reference page in anything besides MLA. Have a paper due tomorrow in APA and need to create a reference page? Great! $10! I'm sorry, but I'm a broke college student and I can do the same thing at citation machine for free and as many times as I want. Definitely stay away.

I use to use easybib when it was simple and ran smoothly no matter how many tabs I had open. Now even if its the only tab open it runs extremely slow, overheats my laptop, and jumps all around the page because it loads in four ads that are all different sizes at one time. I have been working on an essay with my citations saved in a list, it randomly bugged out and erased all my lists just because I did not have a publisher on the citation I was making.

Easybib used to be a tool where it was "Easy" to make bibliography and it went through the process without issue, and helped students learn how to do works cited, but now it had declines big time. Every time I've tried to enter the citation machine, it stops working and instead forces me to watch long useless ads for about 5 minutes. It's ridiculous, there's no skip feature, it forces you to watch the whole advertisement. Sorry Chegg, I don't care about your college election tracking or your Pro mode, I want to make a bibliography. It seems like Chegg has lost any respect for their users and instead use it as an opportunity to get some cash off some students who want to get work done and of high quality. Not to mention the site itself is atrocious, crammed and glitchy. This is 2020, coding a website isn't as advanced as it was. Looks like a site from 1998. I'm about to boycott this material is they really care about the money and nothing else.

As you all probably know by now, EasyBib has become very ad heavy, forcing users to disable adblocks to use its service. I begrudgingly obliged, allowing the bombardment of ads to ensue. However, as I was trying to get a reference for an image, the site pushed me to some unidentified advertiser telling me my adobe was in need of update. My BS detectors went off immediately, and I closed the tab. WITHiN MINUTES, my antivirus (webroot) warned me that my computer had become infected... For the love of God, find an alternative source for references. F*ck this site.

EasyBib is basically the worst. It used to be a pleasurable service that was easy, but now the pages are littered with ads, and worst of all, the videos. These are videos that claim to give you 48 hours of uninterrupted access, but it's really more like 3. And in those 3 hours, there are still tons of ads all around the border of the page, slowing down the speed of my computer and covering content. Most of the time, those ads are identical. After Chegg bought EasyBib, it has become a terrible citing website. The citing itself is the same, but the overall quality of the website has gone down drastically.

Originally easy bib was simple and useful for students of all age levels. Certain things were restricted but honestly, it wasn't anything major, I may even have been willing to buy. Once it was purchased by Chegg study it became awful. I understand a website needs to make money but easy bib crams every single possible surface with an advertisement to the point that the website runs extremely slowly. Even with a good computer. It is absurd.

It literally caused my computer to shut down. It gives me millions of ads that make my laptop slower and some of the ads don't even load because it's so freaking much. I have to use it for school and it's just a freaking burden to use even if it helps me cite my work.